Category: Book Review

People, Profit, Planet 3-legged stool of sustainability

Book Review: The Sustainability Advantage

The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line by Bob Willard This book is dedicated to helping companies financially quantify the environmental benefits that a sustainability program can provide. There are seven areas of business benefit associated with sustainable initiatives (many overlooked): People Benefits 1) Easier hiring of the best talent
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Karen Hester of Adnams Reflects on “Creating a Lean and Green Business System”

Reflecting on the book ‘Creating a Lean and Green Business Systems: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability’ describing how Mr Ford and Mr Toyoda came up with the original idea of “LEAN management”, to improve manufacturing processes, it is apparent that the systems have gone far beyond the original concept now reflecting Corporate Social Responsibility
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fostering sustainable behaviors book review

Book Review for “Fostering Sustainable Behavior”

“Fostering Sustainable Behavior” was written to provide resources to those designing and implementing sustainability initiatives, such as reducing waste, increasing energy efficiency, reducing water consumption, and altering transportation patterns. (p.x) Fostering Sustainable Behavior >>> Mackenzie-Mohr and Smith promote an effective concept called “community-based social marketing”. At first, I didn’t understand what this meant, and almost
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Book review for “Lean Sustainability”

Order “Lean Sustainability: Creating Safe, Enduring, and Profitable Operations” by Dennis Averill >>> The book provides practical, detailed, real-world examples that no other book provides, which integrates safety, health and environment (SHE) with lean and sustainability, known as “Lean, Green and Serene”. Averill introduces another concept, “Triple Zero” which is the goal of zero accidents, zero incidents,
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Green Your Work by Kim Carlson – Book Review

Green Your Work was written by Kim Carlson, who has led several different businesses through a green transformation, and well before all the “cool kids” were doing it. Green Your Work: Boost Your Bottom Line While Reducing Your Carbon Footprint The book is very well organized, into three main section, for a total of 14
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Toyota’s Monozukuri – Book compendium to “Lean and Green Business System”

Toyota can easily be the most storied company in the world. For decades it has caught the imagination of managers around the world becoming an emblematic case for quality, reliability, productivity, employee engagement, continuous improvement, cost reduction and market capitalization growth. Toyota Production System (TPS) is synonymous with efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction and in
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Book review for “Creating a Lean and Green Business System”

Creating a Lean and Green Business System was released on May 3rd, 2013. It was written by some very experienced authors in the world of business and sustainability: Keivan Zokaei, Hunter Lovins, Andy Wood, and Peter Hines. Order “Creating a Lean and Green Business System” This book exceeded my expectations. I was surprised by the detail
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Can Lean Be Green? Interview with Keivan Zokaei

Michael Sinocchi interviewed Keivan Zokaei about his book, Creating a Lean and Green Business System” in a blog article from May 2013. Keivan was headed to the IIE Annual Conference in Puerto Rico to give a presentation and hold a book signing. He asked him “why should companies bother incorporating sustainability and ‘green’ aspects into
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Creating a Lean and Green Business System – 2degrees Network

Keivan Zokaei says businesses can no longer treat lean and green as a “nice to have” but it is now a “must have” and should be a top priority. His new book, “Creating a Lean and Green Business System: Techniques for Increasing Profits and Sustainability”, is packed with case studies and examples of leading firms
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“Six Sigma for Sustainability” book is a must-read!

My background in statistics and Six Sigma was what started me down the path of process improvement. Later on, I added the Lean approach and experience, to balance out my approach, and make it more holistic. As I became more focused on environmental sustainability in my personal life, I quickly saw how nicely these techniques
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